Did I miss the troll again? I do like a bit of troll stomping! Such a shame people need to use a genuine forum for their lives shortcomings.... There should be volunteer administrators on here ..... May contact Daniel

Fairy, that cake........wot can I say? Is it ALL for me? Not all of it surely? Ha ha

Good to hear from Punkdoc.

Had a visit....and small pressie...today from someone I helped. (listened to mostly) over the Xmas. Huge black cloud over him but now he's good and optimistic. Great believer in talking....listening....cos everybody gets down or worse.. It's just normal.

Well, my hostas didn't come today after all....Monday though I'm sure But a good day

Nut... My wife is more or less vegetarian whereas I am completely. We are almost self sufficient in vegetables (would be if we didn't have daughter and her partner living with us) but don't grow much at home except for greenhouse crops and raising stuff for transplanting. Garden is fairly small as greenhouse and potting shed are far more important, although it is bigger than most new builds (ours isn't a new build)... Garden does have a number of fruit trees as we are not allowed trees at the allotment.

He's doing a Time Team special tomorrow night on Ned Lutyens for anyone who might be interested.

He was the renowned architect who did all the hard landscaping in the famous gardens he designed with Gertrude Jekyll , among many other things like the Cenotaph and the Viceroy's House in Delhi etc. I'm a big fan.